BAAI CONFERENCE

Dr. Hongjiang ZHANG is Chairman of BAAI, Member of NAE, a Venture Partner at Sourcecode Capital. He previously served as CEO of Kingsoft Software, CTO of Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group and the Managing Director of the Microsoft Advanced Technology Center. He was also an Assistant Managing Director and a founding member of Microsoft Research Asia and was one of the 10 Microsoft Distinguished Scientists. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Institute of IEEE and ACM, and was the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2012 ACM SIGMM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and the winner of 2008 “Asian-American Engineer of the Year” award. He was selected as one of 2019's top 1,000 computer science and electronics scientists in the world by Guide2research, ranking first among mainland Chinese scholars.

Dr. Qionghai Dai, born in Dec, 1964, now works as a professor in department of Automation and as an adjunct professor in department of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University. He is also an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Dr. Dai is expertized in computational photography and stereoscopic vision. Supported by National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program), the Special Fund for Research on National Major Research Instruments, and National Science Foundation of China, he led a program to develop a Real-time, Ultra-large-Scale imaging at high resolution (RUSH) macroscope on the basis of innovative theories and key technologies of computational photography. RUSH macroscope is succeed in the multi-dimensional and multi-scale dynamic imaging from subcellular to organ levels, leading to the breakthrough observation of neuron connections in million-scale and real-time, which may reveal the structure and function of the human neural system. The findings may provide supports for creation of a new generation of neural computing methods.

Professor Tiejun Huang is the former chair of the department of computer science of Peking University, specializing in visual information processing and neuromorphic computing. He has published 200+ papers, drafted 10+ published national and international standards, and holds more than 50 granted patents. He was awarded the National Award for Technology Invention (2017, Tier-2), National Science and Technology Progress Award (2010 and 2012, both Tier-2), and the Outstanding Youth Award for Technological Achievement Transfer from the China Association for Science and Technology (2014). He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014, the Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education of China in 2015. He serves as the secretary general of the audio and video coding standardization working group from 2002 and the secretary-general of the New Generation AI Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance (AITISA) from 2017.

Full Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University. Research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social networks , machine learning and knowledge graph, with an emphasis on designing new algorithms for mining social and knowledge networks. He has published more than 200 journal/conference papers and hold 20 patents. Jie served as PC Co-Chair of CIKM’16, WSDM’15, Associate General Chair of KDD’18, and Acting Editor-in-Chief of ACM TKDD, Editors of IEEE TKDE, IEEE TBD, and ACM TIST. He was honored with the UK Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship Award, CCF Young Scientist Award, NSFC for Distinguished Young Scholar, and KDD’18 Service Award.

清华大学计算机科学与技术系长聘教授，清华大学智能产业研究院副院长，国家杰出青年基金获得者。担任中国人工智能学会组织工作委员会副秘书长、中国中文信息学会计算语言学专委会常务副主任。研究方向是自然语言处理，获得国家科技进步二等奖1项、省部级科技奖励4项、重要国际会议优秀论文奖2项。曾担任清华大学计算机科学与技术系智能技术与系统实验室主任、国际计算语言学学会亚太分会执委兼秘书长、Computational Linguistics编委、中国中文信息学会青年工作委员会主任。

曾任IBM中国研究院院长，IBM全球技术研究院核心领导成员，是IBM中国研究院在中国本土成长起来而被任命的首位院长，也是首位女性院长，负责AI系统全球创新研究。她从事多年的系统架构、云计算、AI系统、计算机视觉等领域的研究。 2019年5月，入选福布斯“中国科技女性榜”。

鄂维南，中国科学院院士，北京科学智能研究院院长，北京大学国际机器学习研究中心主任。鄂维南院士在国际上率先提出“AI for Science”的概念，大力推动了 AI for Science 在应用数学、物理、化学、力学、材料学、生物学等多个领域的发展。他和合作者们开创了深度学习和微分方程相结合的研究领域，并把机器学习系统地应用到多尺度建模领域，在量子多体问题、密度泛函理论、分子动力学、动力学方程、连续介质力学等多个领域都做出了原创性突破。他和合作者依靠在科学计算、机器学习和高性能计算交叉领域的突出贡献而获得2020年高性能计算最高奖ACM Gordon-Bell奖，并受邀成为2022年国际数学家大会一小时报告人。

清华大学基础科学讲席教授、北京智源人工智能研究院首席科学家，国家杰出青年基金获得者、“万人计划”科技创新领军人才，中国心理学会常务理事，中国高等教育学会常务理事、学习科学分会常务副理事长兼秘书长，中国人才学会超常人才专业委员会会长。